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Section 40-6A-616 – Procedure to register child-support order of foreign country for modification

May 17, 2021 | Family Law, New Mexico

A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a foreign child-support order not pursuant to the convention may register that order in this state pursuant to Sections 40-6A-601 through 40-6A-608 NMSA 1978 if the order has not been registered. A petition for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration or at another time. The petition shall specify the grounds for modification.

NMS § 40-6A-616

1978 Comp., § 40-6A-616, enacted by Laws 2011, ch. 159, § 52.
Added by 2011, c. 159,s. 52, eff. Effective the later of the date that the United States deposits the instrument of ratification for the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance with the Hague conference on private international law or 1/1/2012.